Books for the Course: There will be an online packet of essays available in Blackboard. In addition to those readings, we will be discussing readings from the following anthology as well as reading and discussing the following novels. Click image links below to purchase new or used books online. (Make sure your browser ad-blocker is […]

Books for the Course Click image links below to purchase new or used books online. (Be sure to turn your browser ad blocker off to see the book links.) Course Description This course explores principles, techniques, and procedures of electronic and print-based document production. Topics include: the relationship between written and visual material; traditional copy […]

Books for the Course: Click image links below to purchase new or used books online. (Be sure to turn your browser ad blocker off to see the book links.) Course Description: A course introducing students to the fundamentals of college composition. Topics include writing process, rhetorical strategies, basics of critical reading and thinking, analytical […]

Books for the Course: Click image links below to purchase new or used books online. (Be sure to turn your browser ad blocker off to see the book links.) Catalog Description: This course is an historical survey of Gothic literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. The course focuses mainly on literary Gothicism […]

Books for the Course: Click image links below to purchase new or used books online. (Be sure to turn your browser ad blocker off to see the book links.) Catalog Description: Fantasy literature is dismissed, misrepresented, and devalued by some literary scholars, even though, as Ursula Le Guin notes, it is the oldest form […]

Books and Films for the Course: Click image links below to purchase new or used books online. (Be sure to turn your browser ad blocker off to see the book links.) Click the image links below to stream the films from Amazon Instant Video: Catalog Description: Science fiction uses various literary, philosophical, psychological, social, […]

Books for the Course: Click image link below to purchase new or used books online. (Be sure to turn your browser ad blocker off to see the book links.) Catalog Description: Students will learn and apply elements of clear and effective writing and oral expression appropriate for careers in the technical professions. Course work includes case […]

Books for the Course: Click image link below to purchase new or used books online. (Be sure to turn your browser ad blocker off to see the book links.) Course Description: A study of great works of literature that represent major periods of civilization. The course explores the nature of God and humanity, the […]

This is a revised version of the foundations of critical thinking course that I developed for NYiT’s Discovery Core. Book for the Course: Course Description: This course introduces you to the fundamentals of critical thinking both in the university and in your own life. Topics include an overview of the research methods in many […]

This is a foundations of writing course that I helped developed for NYiT’s Discovery Core. Books for the Course: Click image links below to purchase new or used books online. Course Description: Further development of the academic writing, critical thinking, and analytical reading skills taught in Writing I. An introduction to academic discourse in […]

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